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sun , or for the milder radiance pf the moon , for an overshadowing cloud , for the gloom of night , For any intermission of the bewildering glory which surrounds tnm ; but the sun and moon are no more , and the shades of darkness have fled away . He desires to pay the forms of homage which he supposes to be appropriate to the place , and inquires for the sanctuary : he is told that " there is no temple therein ; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple thereof . "
If he be lowly enough to submit to instruction , patient enough to unlearn his errors , eager to divest himself of prejudice , and courageous to forego his most cherished conceptions , all may yet be weJl ; for the gates of the heavenly city stand open for ever , and its waters flow for all that are athirst . But it must be long before his discipline will have prepared him to enjoy ,
like his companion , the full delight of a spiritual existence , and before the mysteries of eternity can be revealed to his enraptured gaze . He is not , like the wicked , banished from the regions of life and light : but neither is he enabled , by intellectual as well as moral preparation , to find in them the home of the understanding , as well as the resting-place of the affections . v
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This little volume , the author of which is at present unknown , has been before the public about two years , and the fourth edition appeared last Christmas . That it should be popular among the members of the Established Church is quite to be expected , for one of its most striking characteristics is the fervent attachment it displays towards the church in all her forms and offices . Though , however , it can in truth be wholly appropriated only by
Churchmen , it contains enough both of poetry and of religious feeling to make it very acceptable in part to Dissenters ; and we see not why Unitarians should not extract all they can from it . Good poetry is too precious a gift to be rejected ; and it does us unfailing good to be made to feel that the best part of human nature is of no church . We have much disagreeable
duty to do by the Establishment , and when we pick up a fellow-traveller who is content to enter the Christian ' s classic ground , in a peaceful manner , for the sake of culling flowers and precious fruits , instead of coming in as an armed champion to drive out intruders , we feel no inclination to quarrel with him at the outset , though we may fancy that he has mistaken weeds fur flowers here and there .
" The Christian Year" is rather a book of imitations than of originals . The author ' s mind appears to have been guided by affection for the worthies of his church , such men as Geor ge Herbert , Isaac Walton , Sir Henry Wotton , and Donne , full as much as by attachment to the church itself ; and he has fallen into an antique and occasionally affected manner of writing . In
other ways this partiality has been of service to him , for he seems largely imbued with the devout and fervent spirit of these elder writers . The " whole character of the poetry , indeed , is of a very meditative , amiable , and soothing cast—happy in its power of applying and illustrating Scripture , and drawing largely on the stores of nature for imagery of the most beautiful
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VM The Christian Year .
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THE CHRISTIAN YEAR . *
* The Chribtian Year : Thoughts iu Verse for the Sundays and Holidays throughout the Year . Oxford . 1828 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 822, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/6/
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